The future of weeding is here, and it comes in the form of a robot. The growing popularity of robotic weeders for specialty crops has grown partly out of necessity, says Steven Fennimore, an extension ...

Herbicide-resistant weeds are a growing threat to crops globally, and farmers may soon need some alternatives. Enter: tiny, lightweight robots that plough the soil, unseating weed seeds before they ...

While manually hoeing weeds out of crops can be very time- and labor-intensive, spraying those crops with herbicides is definitely not eco-friendly. A German consortium is developing a third choice, ...

A robotic device in development at the University of Idaho could help shape the future of nationwide reforestation efforts. The 3-foot-wide robot, designed by U of I computer science students in ...

People examine the work of a robotic weeder during a field day hosted by UC Davis. (Nic Coury / For The Times) The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer ...

Artificial intelligence-powered farming robotics company Carbon Autonomous Robotics Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised $70 million in a late-stage funding to help scale up its business, ...

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US startup Carbon Robotics says it has closed a series B round of venture financing that will be used to scale production of an automated vehicle equipped with lasers to destroy weeds. The Seattle ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Robotics, an agriculture robotics company, today announced it secured $27 million in Series B financing from Anthos Capital, Ignition Partners, Fuse Venture Capital, ...

Agricultural robotics firm Carbon Robotics (not to be confused with our former Battlefield contestant) announced this week that it has secured $27 million in funding. The round — which features Anthos ...

A weed-killing robot from Denmark that can distinguish between crops and weeds. The four-wheeled robot actually goes out into the field and identifies which plants are weeds by scanning the ground ...

Robots are gonna rule the world one day. If they’re not cooking for us, then they’re out chopping weeds in a field somewhere. A group of engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...